[BC] Silly engineer tricks

[Tom Spencer]

In the audio domain, not RF - I had a neighbor like that - I was working 
sign-off at WTHR at the time -

Idiot downstairs insisted on waking up to the most horrendous 
cacophonous head banging stuff you can imagine - and his alarm went off 
JUST as I was getting fully dropped off to sleep at around 4:30-ish.

Other neighbors had also remonstrated with him, but it was particularly 
annoying to the Ch. 13 sign off engineer...

Hmm

I have this nice 250w/ch stereo system - components, none of this 
integrated receiver stuff... Tuner, selector, graphic equalizer, 
turntable...

Including this nice TEAC 3300SX2T deck...

And a recording of the 1812 Overture, featuring, if I recall rightly, 
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - with cannon fire 
courtesy the secondary batteries of the USS New Jersey, I believe - 
might have been the Missouri - it's been a while since I've had either 
the tape or the LP out...

Tape is at 15 ips, full fidelity (first pass across the turntable onto 
the reel...)

I also have this nice timer....

11:05 PM - I have an alibi - I'm behind Camera 2 at the studio...  seven 
witnesses, including Bob Gregory, the (in)famous weather guy here in Indy.

Timer starts tape

Volume at 75%

Bass at +12dB

The cannons rattled the windows, according to reports the next morning.

Statute of limitations has expired on this one <grin> - the upshot (BAD 
pun!) being that we never had any more headbanger music at 4:30 AM

Broadcast List USER wrote:
> That reminds me.  I ONCE HEARD (because I would have nothing to do
> with this) of some guys at the Mutual Broadcasting System who had two
> Boonton signal generators. 
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>
> Then there was the guy I worked with at WPGC.  His shift started at 5
> AM, so he retired early.  He got a new neighbor who loved WKYS.  She
> would come home late, and put it on loud.  He tried to reason with
> her, but she didn't care.  So, she came home one night and he put a
> signal generator on it, modulated VERY heavily.  He said she said
> something to him about her speakers being burned out.  She was looking
> for advice because she knew where he worked.

-- 
Tom Spencer
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